"I’m not on Mastodon because there’s nobody there, there’s not enough users to make it succeed, my whole community is on Twitter and don’t want to migrate and… hey… I now have a #Bluesky account! Please follow me on Bluesky, it’s very cool, it belongs to a billionaire but is decentralised. Or at least, the billionaire promises us it will be, which is cool."
@ploum What's funny is that Jack Dorsey, the billionaire who everyone thinks owns Bluesky, is just on the board of directors, doesn't have an account, and is actively endorsing a Web3 competitor to Bluesky. Bluesky is just a shady for-profit Mastodon wannabe that will never amount to anything in the federated social media space. Now we watch as their own users get angry that federation is coming, even though that was the promise from the beginning.
@ploum “I can’t get clout on Mastodon, and I have nothing else to offer the world but my clout-based opinions, which depend on clout-networks, and I have a mortgage payment due.”
@ploum Mastodon's big problem is that there is no corporation with an eccentric CEO who would give themselves the title of Mastodon Mammoth or something, talk to the press how their stock will go up due to a dream they had yesterday, hype up investors and show up in tech biz news feeds.
I mean, for me, that's a feature. But capitalist machinery does not know what to do with things that aren't for sale. Let us recall that PC gaming got revived almost entirely due to Steam.
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